I’ve been personally using FreeNAS permanently for around 6 years or so, around the 8.3 release, and it is ony of my favourite open-source projects to date. As a NAS, [ … ]
LinITX APU2 D2 Review – An exceptional Home/SMB Firewall
Netgate’s pfSense has surged in popularity over the last few years and has grown to be the most popular open source firewall out there, and it’s easy to see why [ … ]
Getting Started with Home Assistant – Part 4 – Automations and Templates
Welcome to part 4 of the Getting Started with Home Assistant series. This series aims to help teach you about the basic configuration and functionality of Home Assistant. This part [ … ]
Getting Started with Home Assistant – Part 3 – Configuration/Adding entities
Welcome to part 3 of the Getting Started with Home Assistant series. This series aims to help teach you about the basic configuration and functionality of Home Assistant. This part [ … ]
Getting Started with Home Assistant – Part 2 – Setup and Lovelace Overview
Welcome to part 2 of the Getting Started with Home Assistant series. This series aims to help teach you about the basic configuration and functionality of Home Assistant. This part [ … ]
Getting started with Home Assistant – Part 1 – Installation
Introduction Welcome to the first part of our Getting started with Home Assistant series! This series aims to help teach you about the basic configuration and functionality of Home Assistant. [ … ]
Wifi Dimmer switch with Tasmota – Tuya Dimmer guide
Dimmer switches have been around for a long time, useful for those situations where you just don’t want a bulb to be at 100% brightness all the time. So what [ … ]
How to flash custom firmware to a Sonoff Basic
Sonoff basics are amazing little devices and are probably the most popular way of making a dumb device smart. They are incredibly simple, versatile and very inexpensive. It has many [ … ]
Building a bed occupancy sensor for Home Assistant
Building a bed occupancy sensor for Home Assistant automations
Tuya-Convert guide – OTA flashing of smart bulbs and plugs
In one of the previous posts we looked at how to flash ESPHome/Tasmota onto a Tuya based smart bulb using the soldering method. I explained that Tuya-Convert is a much [ … ]